Former Microsoft dev says Windows Start menu's performance is "comically bad," even with monster PC
If only Windows were "as good as it once was"
An old and unreleased beta build of Windows 7 has leaked online
A trip down memory lane and into Microsoft developers' mind
Facebook Messenger now lets you send high-def photos and files up to 100 MB
Facebook Messenger now allows you to send high resolution photos, create shared albums with friends, and send larger files of up to 100MB in your chats.
Meta will blur images containing nudity in Instagram messages to under 18s
Over 18s can enable the feature if they want
Google launches Chrome Enterprise Premium, a paid-for browser with advanced security features
Google thinks enterprise browsers are the future of workplace security and productivity
Opera GX adds a free official Cyberpunk browser mod
The official Cyberpunk 2077 mod includes a live wallpaper, background music, browser sounds, and visual effects that sync with your PC's RGB lighting. You can download the mod from the GX.store.
GPU-Z adds Intel Meteor Lake support, along with various improvements
GPU-Z 2.58 adds support for Intel Meteor Lake and for Radeon RX 7600M and RTX 3050 4GB GPUs. Other enhancements include 8K support and improved formatting for certain values.
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train its LLMs, Google engaged in same practice
Meta reportedly considered equally shady tactics, too
Apple opens up the App Store to allow retro game emulators
But a careful reading of the new policy suggests that this permission may be limited
Android 15 might come with an improved desktop mode
Major improvements for one of Android's most basic features
Washington's Lottery pulls promotional AI app after it accidentally produces a nude
Instead of a fake "dream vacation" photo, the AI turned one woman's selfie into a deepfake
Intel XeSS 1.3 improves performance with new presets, intros DLAA alternative
The render scale for each preset has changed, and new ones have appeared
Opera starts offering local access to LLMs and AI chatbots
The first web browser to provide a local, privacy-enhanced AI experience?
Windows and Microsoft Office are being replaced with Linux and LibreOffice in this German state
Going open-source to ensure digital sovereignty
Nvidia DLSS 3.7 can improve performance and image quality for some games
Now users can tweak DLSS versions for different games
Sony just fixed a security hole that made the PlayStation Portal more useful
And that's why we can't have nice things in the emulation community
FTC denies rating board's suggestion for age verification system
Editor's take: The ESRB has one job: rate games by maturity level based on content. So why did it involve itself in a proposal to add a new age verification system for parents to use to provide consent for data collection on their children? All that did was confuse the public about what facial age estimation is and how it would be used, leading to it getting shot down by the FTC.
Microsoft reveals how much Windows 10 Extended Security Updates will cost
The Extended Security Updates program was first introduced for Windows 7
Nintendo explains how it created Zelda's amazing physics at GDC
The game's physics and construction systems left other developers flummoxed
Apple's Spatial Personas for the Vision Pro bring your FaceTime callers into the room
Personas look like floating ghostly torsos, but it's still kind of cool
Microsoft will erase WordPad with the next Windows 11 upgrade
In a nutshell: Microsoft has made it abundantly clear that WordPad is slated for retirement. A newly published document outlines a specific timeline for the discontinuation of the longstanding software, indicating that its demise may occur sooner than anticipated.
Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share
According to Statcounter and the Steam survey
Latest Steam survey: Nvidia's mid-range GPUs top the charts, a bad month for AMD
Intel is grabbing back the CPU share it lost to AMD
IEEE will no longer accept Playboy's "Lenna" image for image processing research
A hot potato: Simply known as "Lenna," the test image was scanned by Alexander Sawchuk at the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing Institute in 1973. It's been used in research papers about image processing since then, but now the time has come to retire this piece of fortuitous standard in digital beauty.
